"You'll have to forgive me Brian, as I'm not exactly a Church-going man..."
(Fadein, Cameron Cruise in front of an EPW Wrestleverse backdrop, dressed in blue jeans and a white t-shirt with the infamous "No Ma'am" logo on the front and and his black Anarchy shades. Re-shouldering the EPW Intercontinental Championship onto his left shoulder, he shakes his head in disbelief.)
CRUISE: ...But how am I supposed to sit here and listen to a person that's been given the right to vote, the privilages to drink alcohol and free range to attempt to stick his penis where the sun doesn't shine as well as in any vagina that would hold still long enough to hold her breath....and still look into a rat-infested, herpes-and-syphilis-driven, graffiti-written, cracked mirror in a gas station and see a grown man that's dressed up in make-up with his "hair did", and his nails done and take him seriously??
It just can't be done, why??
For one...making yourself as a mock up of Trent Reznor only irritates the piss out of me, not because you're a fan of him by any means, it's pretty obvious. But because I USED to be one myself.
At least until I saw him in a Las Vegas Strip Club and tried to say hi to him and wave as he walked by. But you know what?? He didn't say hello, he didn't wave at me or even nod in my general direction.
So you know what I say to Trent Reznor??
F*CK TRENT REZNOR!!!, he's a midget that doesn't deserve to be involved in music and needs to find himself a hole and stay there!!
However, I'm digressing and I don't want you to miss the point I'm trying to make here. The fact is is that everytime I look at you Brian, I can't help to think back to when I was looking up things in the "Good Book" the other day...
Not that I had a desire to pursue my religion beliefs any further, but because I was bored, just so we're clear about it....but I remember reading something in there that stuck with me.
(Cruise looks down for a second to think..)
If memory serves I believe it goes something like..."When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.", 1 Corinthians 13:11.
So in seeing that inscribed...it comes to me like an epiphany....I not only don't have to answer to you or your questions, but since you're the exact opposite of that passage...
I don't have to listen to you, PERIOD, but for the sake of the argument...let's allow me the honor of answering MORE of your questions because believe me...there's nothing I'd like to spend my precious time doing than to put your mind at ease...as warped as it may be.
First off, how do you know that I haven't had a plan to "seize the moment", Brian??
How do you know that I haven't done it already by bringing forth and together the best group of athletes this business has ever seen or failed to give the proper chance to?? How do you know that I'm not just biding my time for when whomever it is that comes out of it the champion after this PPV is over?? Maybe I'm pulling back like acouple people did afew years ago over in Stamford?? Hell, I might just be comfortable as it is right now, and focused on just taking over the entire company first and then the circuit??
Larry Tact, one of the best technical wrestlers to step in the ring.
Shawn Jessica Hart, one of the most unpredictable competitors there is.
Hell, Jared Wells...
(Cruise smiles slyly)
What CAN'T you say about that dirty b*tch?? One half of "The Dangle Brothers"...there's not a thing that that bastard can't do that he'll set the bar doing.
It's a matter of picking the perfect time to strike, First, and you can be rest assured that when you figure it out, everyone else will too.
You see, you haveta get something into your head, Brian, and that's that at twenty-four years old...you couldn't POSSIBLY have the experience that I've got, not with a decade longer career.
I told you, when I created "Anthology", I put this company as well as this business on NOTICE.
Besides, everyone knows that Sean Stevens is too much of a punk-ass chicken**** to waste his breath calling me out, anyway, regardless of how much myself or Anthology has dominated his crew.
The Fallen.
(Cruise smirks.)
That's a joke.
Our wins are forgotten ten minutes after we achieve them...I mean, tell me you're kidding, Brian. As I've said before Stevens is a chicken****, Chiquita Banana got so freaked out that I'm not sure if ANYONE really knows what happened to her, and Stalker isn't anything but a watered down version of Bob Saget, as far as I'm concerned.
Fusenshoff?? Let's just call it what it is. Fuse is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
But as far as Aggression 42 is concerned...here's the difference between you and me...Stevens asserted himself into defending the World title and that's fine.
Not many men that possess a title on that level do that.
I asked for someone to sign on the dotted line and face me in the ring, and Troy Douglas continued to exhibit the stupidity that got him to where he is today and answered it by doing the same.
I own Troy Douglas, figuratively, metaphorically, and inside the squared circle...LITERALLY, and he paid for it by losing the Intercontinental Championship and nearly breaking his neck.
You?? You get what you want by challenging Trips to a match on the same night for the World Heavyweight Championship...and FAIL.
Now...thinking back over these last few months, you'd like to think that somewhere there's a pattern right??
Much like Douglas, when it comes down to it Brian...you can't upstage me or The Anthology. Not that you couldn't keep trying, but let's face it, it is what it is:
We're just that much bette than you.
You'd said in the past that you're seen as the 'lesser half' of the Forsaken, much like I was in "The Cameron Cruise Project", but again...I took advantage of my work ethic, and because of that...
People, athletes and fans alike know me more than they know you, despite of how many times I challenge for the World Heavyweight title; that's just the perks of the business.
It's great to be popular, First...FIRST, it's even better when you pull off the unexpected in the process.
You're a tag wrestler out of the "Shadow" of Felix Red, and good on you for it.
But, I'm a former TWO-TIME TAG TEAM CHAMPION turned CURRENT Intercontinental Champion.
See where I'm goin' here, Brian??
Whatever your trying to do, despite the match with Trips...I've done it FIRST..and I've done it BETTER.
Destiny leaves me behind??
Have you not seen anything myself and the rest of The Anthology has done lately??
I'm the Intercontinental Champion and Larry Tact and Jared Wells are the current tag team champions and "The Prime Minister of Gettin' Sinister" is "The Friggin' Champion of the Universe"!!
In other words, Brian...we ARE the the HOTTEST COMMODITY this business has seen, and it's because of me.
Yeah, Sean Stevens is going to defend the World Heavyweight title at Wrestleverse and neither one of us is going to be standing in the ring across from him.
But when you think about it...no one really gives a damn. They want to see who's going to get destroyed next by The Anthology.
For one man...that's Layne Winters...as if that should cause a problem.
Others get to smack around Felix Red and his partner, Snuffleupagus, and it couldn't be a better time.
Then there's you, The First.
"The First" to challenge me for the Intercontinental title, and "The First" chance for someone to shut you up.
And despite not getting a chance for the World Heavyweight title...I couldn't be more happier than to be the man to do it.
How do you know that Destiny or Fate hasn't given me the sign to "Steal Third Base"?? Maybe I've already got a three-to-four step leadoff??
But you're right Brian, it's time to **** or get off the pot.
Just wait until you see what I've left for you to "flush down the toilet", come Wrestleverse.
Believe me...it'll be a REALITY CHECK that you just...won't like.
(Fadeout.)